Re: [PATCH net-next v14 22/22] testing/selftests: add test tool and scripts for ovpn module

[Simon Horman]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 09:53:31AM +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> The ovpn-cli tool can be compiled and used as selftest for the ovpn
> kernel module.
> 
> [NOTE: it depends on libmedtls for decoding base64-encoded keys]
> 
> ovpn-cli implements the netlink and RTNL APIs and can thus be integrated
> in any script for more automated testing.
> 
> Along with the tool, 4 scripts are provided that perform basic
> functionality tests by means of network namespaces.
> These scripts take part to the kselftest automation.
> 
> The output of the scripts, which will appear in the kselftest
> reports, is a list of steps performed by the scripts plus some
> output coming from the execution of `ping`, `iperf` and `ovpn-cli`
> itself.
> In general it is useful only in case of failure, in order to
> understand which step has failed and why.
> 
> Cc: linux-kselftest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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> +/**
> + * Helper function used to easily add attributes to a rtnl message
> + */

Hi Antonio,

This comment starts with a '/**' but is otherwise not formatted as
a Kernel doc. Probably it is best to simply start the comment with '/*'.

Likewise elsewhere in this patch.

Flagged by ./scripts/kernel-doc -none

> +static int ovpn_addattr(struct nlmsghdr *n, int maxlen, int type,
> +			const void *data, int alen)

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